[OccupyCU] 2pm Sunday: "The Yes Men Fix The World", Champaign Library room B

[Stuart Levy]

AWARE Films is back with a film we've been waiting to show...
At 2pm Sunday 3/18, in Champaign Public Library Robeson room B, please 
come see the documentary,

*The Yes Men Fix The World* <http://theyesmenfixtheworld.com/>

The Yes Men - intrepid performance artists, satirists, political 
activists - impersonate executives of corporations they don't like and 
make news happen the way it ought to.  Did Dow Chemical compensate the 
survivors of the Bhopal insecticide-plant explosion?  Did US HUD offer 
to rebuild low-income housing in New Orleans?   No - but the Yes Men, 
dressed in bland business suits, tell the world that they will be.

[It's especially appropriate for us in Occupy to care about the Yes 
Men.  They can be an inspiration for us.  See the Yes Lab below.]

We have created a market system that makes doing the right thing 
impossible, say the Yes Men, and the people who appear to be leading are 
actually following its pathological dictates. If we keep putting the 
market in the driver's seat, it could happily drive the whole planet off 
a cliff.

The Yes Men peel back layers of lies to reveal truth - and with it, hope 
- in ingeniously hilarious ways.

When & where: 2 p.m. Sunday, March 18, Champaign Public Library Robeson 
room "B".

We'll have some refreshments.  Free, and all are welcome.  Please join us!

Of course it doesn't end with this film.  The Yes Men encourage others to
follow their example - and among other things, they've been involved 
with Occupy from early on.
Check out the Yes Lab,
http://www.yeslab.org/
... for example the "Brokers and Police for the Occupation" 
<http://www.yeslab.org/brokersandpolice> action at OWS in New York.
Or become Best Friends Forever with the 1% <http://www.yeslab.org/bffs>.

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